Agnes, 1st wife of Malise, 7th Earl of Strathearn

Not the daughter of Alexander Comyn, 4th Earl of Buchan & Joan le Latimer

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Strathearn-32

This Malise was the 7th Earl of Strathearn.[1]

Malise was born about 1278 son to Malise of Strathearn and his wife Agnes daughter to Alexander Comyn earl of Buchan.

About 1300 Malise married but the name of his wife is not discovered. He had issue from this first marriage:

1. Malise his heir
2. Mary who about 1320 mar. Sir John Moray of Drumsagard.

Malise died about 1327 and was succeeded in the title by his son Malise and survived by his daughter Mary who with her husband had been granted a very substantial portion of the Strathearn estate, His second wife Johanna Menteith also survived him and remarried a further three times. Her second husband was John Campbell earl of Atholl who died 1333 and then she married Maurice Moray step- son of Mary Strathearn her step-daughter. Johanna retained the title of Countess of Strathearn throughout her life.

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MALISE ([1275/80]-before 1329). Andrew Wyntoun´s Cronykil records that "Jhon and Alysandyre" had five sisters, the second of which married "Off Stratherne the Erle Malys" by whom she had "a swne…Malys"[732]. He succeeded his father in 1313 as Earl of Strathearn.

m firstly AGNES, daughter of --- (-after Aug 1320). John of Fordun´s Scotichronicon (Continuator) records that "dominus Willelmus de Sowlis et comitissa de Strathern" were convicted of high treason at a parliament in Scone in Aug 1320 and sentenced to life imprisonment[733].

m secondly ([1323]) as her first husband, JOAN Menteith, daughter of Sir JOHN Menteith of Rusky & his wife --- (-after 20 Mar 1367). She married secondly John Campbell Earl of Atholl, thirdly Maurice Moray Earl of Strathearn, and fourthly (before 9 Nov 1347) as his second wife, William Sutherland 5th Earl of Sutherland.

Earl Malise & his first wife had two children:

i) MALISE (-killed in battle Neville’s Cross 17 Oct 1346). He succeeded his father as Earl of Strathearn. He succeeded his cousin Magnus as Earl of Caithness and Orkney in [1323/29]. He resigned the earldom of Strathearn [24 Sep/16 Dec] 1332 into the hands of Edward Balliol, was tried for treason in 1344 for so doing, but found innocent[759]. John of Fordun’s Scotichronicon (Continuator) records that "Johannes Ranulphi comes Moraviæ ac etiam comes de Strathern constabularius Scotiæ…David filius et heres David de Lindsay…Willelmus Fraser…" were killed at Durham 17 Oct 1346[760]. [761]m firstly MARY, daughter of ---. m secondly ([1325/28]%29 MATILDA [Marjory] of Ross, daughter of HUGH Earl of Ross & his first wife Matilda Bruce (-after 1350). Earl Malise & his first wife had four children: …

ii) MARY . "Malisius comes Strathern" granted "terram de Abbercarny…que fuit Roberti filii Magni dicti de Strathern" to "Johanni de Moravia de Dromsygart…[et] heredibus suis de Maria filia nostra" by undated charter[763]. [764]m ([1319/22]) as his second wife, JOHN Moray of Drumsagard, co. Lanark, son of ---.